Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Nationalist activist, chief of staff of the Irish National Army and chief of staff of the Civic Guard, for whom see Dictionary of Irish Biography..    According to this source, Eoin O'Duffy, who was born near Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, became a clerk in Monaghan County Council in 1910 and 'held a short apprenticeship in Co. Wexford c.1913' before serving in Monaghan as 'surveyor, engineer and architect, mainly for the Clones district'. A biography in the Weekly Irish Times of 13 November 1928 and the entry on O'Duffy in Wikipedia combine to present a slightly different narrative, namely that after being apprenticed to the engineering trade 'in his early youth' and being placed fifth in the Local Government Board examination in 1912, he was appointed a District Surveyor to Monaghan County Councilin 1913, based in Newbliss, and engineer and architect to Clones Rural District Council in 1919..  It is not clear how long he contiued to hold this position on account of his increasing involvement in political and military activities; according to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, 'Nationalist sympathies in the local authority facilitated his general absence from official duty'.